Our flagship event designed to cater to the needs of those who design, build, operate and maintain our built environment. These sessions focus on the use of BIM tools, BIM processes and workflows, as well as project and practice strategies and leadership skills.

The Building Content Summit (BCS) is an event dedicated to bringing together thought leaders from within the design, manufacturing and software sectors to discuss best practices for development and how to leverage BIM content within projects.

Aimed at students and educators, BILT academy is a one-day summit including Labs with exciting and interesting experts as speakers to provide the opportunity to discover the current state of the art practices and workflows in a multiple platform environment.

A hackathon is a design 'sprint-like' event where teams of usually between 3-6 people work together based on a specific theme, with the goal to create usable software or hardware as a functioning prototype or product by the end of the event.

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A Sydney-based architect, Wesley is the founder of RTC Events Management. As a long-term user and advocate of BIM (starting with ArchiCAD in 1996), Wesley has been speaking and teaching in the field since starting to play with a pre-release version of Revit.

Wesley has worked directly with Autodesk on Revit development and implementation, built content for manufacturers and end-users, and has implemented multiple BIM tools into well over 300 practices throughout South-East Asia. He has spoken around the world on technology, facilities management and process change; he founded (and chaired for 5 years) the Revit User Group, Sydney; and is now focused on Smart Cities development worldwide.

Wesley Benn

Richard Kuppusamy is a chartered British Architect with more than 18 years of experience in the AEC industry with projects across Europe to Asia.. He graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, with a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design in 2001.

After practicing in the UK for over 10 years; Richard returned to Singapore to join acclaimed architectural practice, WOHA Architects. In 2017 he joined Lendlease, as the Head of Digital Integration where he leads the implementation of innovation in digital technology and processes through BIM/VDC from design, construction through to facility management.

As an early adopter of BIM with over 10 years’ experience in BIM implementation and strategic planning Richard brings unique insights to create additional value in successful project delivery. Understanding commercial interests, processes, regulatory requirements and technical mechanics to implement BIM at both organization and project level from design to construction.

In his commitment to open collaboration to advance the industries adoption of BIM/VDC; Richard has contributed to the development of the Building Construction Authority, Singapore BIM Guide and lectures at the BCA Academy on BIM Management and Legal & Contractual matters.

Richard Kuppusamy

Joe Darling is a Designer based in the Shanghai office of Perkins Eastman. Since 2014, Joe’s design focus and experience have been in Senior Living, Primary and Secondary Education, Healthcare, and Large-Scale Mixed-Use projects. In concert with his design experience, for the past seven years, Joe has pushed the boundaries of Rhino and Revit, creating tools for each that enable streamlined workflows and collaboration with stakeholders that are typically removed from the digital design process. Most recently, Joe began developing cross-platform applications that further his passion of linking distant stakeholders directly to the design team and process, all with the convenience of the mobile, desktop or web platform of the user’s choice. With his growing portfolio of design and technical expertise, Joe also serves as a BIM lead for the Shanghai Studio, mentoring his colleagues on best practices for engaging with BIM, while achieving optimal levels of design for the given phase.

Joseph Darling

Rexter is Mott MacDonald’s Digital Delivery Manager (Major Projects) and is an accomplished engineer with an emphasis on applied technology for design and engineering project delivery. Over his 10 years’ experience, he worked on a broad portfolio of building and infrastructure projects while establishing a presence in the community through leadership involvement with BCA and other efforts to advance BIM adoption in Singapore, Hong Kong and other parts of the region. Rexter is a Member of the Structural Engineering Institute, Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Professional Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in BIM Management with First Class Honours. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree in Engineering with emphasis on the application of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics in Construction.

Rexter Retana

Sonny Andalis is the current Senior Executive BIM Manager for Surbana Jurong, Digital Management Office. He is a registered civil engineer in the Philippines with a professional focus in Transport Engineering having previous work for Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) and Changi Airport Terminal 3 and 5. He is also a registered ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer (ACPE), PICE Structural Engineering Specialist and Registered Foreign Professional Engineer (RFPE) in Malaysia.
He has 17 years combined experience in government service, rail & airport engineering and has work for AECOM, Building and Construction Authority, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and CPG airport respectively. He has written technical papers on BIM interoperability and GIS integration; regulations for both BIM for buildings and infrastructure & parametric models featuring evolutionary solvers. He has participated in both the Virtual Singapore (VSG); Underground Geospatial Information Management (UGIM).

Sonny Andalis

Lyn is a mechanical engineer by training and currently focuses on creating more efficient industry workflows for urban infrastructure and Smart Cities.
Her consulting work includes training up the building & infrastructure industry on the latest design trends, smart city initiatives, the Internet of Things in relation to urban infrastructure, sustainability issues and city-wide engineering simulation and visualization.

Lyn Chua

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DBEI has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation around the world. While some parts of our society are beginning to open in baby-steps, none of us know how the situation will develop over the coming months. As such, DBEI has now made the decision to postpone all our 2020 events to 2021 as the well-being of all our partners and participants in our events remains our utmost priority. For new details on each region please visit our event pages. We have also sent communications to all registered attendees, speakers or sponsors for all of our 2020 events.

In the interim, DBEI will be launching several exciting virtual events and webinars in 2020 to continue to deliver the same expertise, insights and knowledge to the AEC industry during these uncertain times. We also have some other exciting initiatives we are working on to continue to provide value to our community, which we look forward to sharing with you all shortly.

We wish to thank you all for your support and appreciate your patience and understanding under the current circumstances and will continue to update our website and the community if there are any changes.

If you have any concerns or questions about our events please email us at info@dbei.org